Every Day Zen
"Good work,” my neurologist said, adding, “easy for me to say.” We were discussing my relapsing-remitting cervical myelopathy. “It's pretty much a full-time job," was my response which did not surprise him but did me. In over 40+ years of chronic auto immune disease, I refused to see it as my full-time anything. Just the... Continue Reading →
A while back, Seth Godin wrote a great post about the response, “I don’t like your work,” emphasizing the importance of someone taking the time to respond. Time may or may not be money but for everyone, it has worth. Some who know me don’t like my work but so far, they still like me... Continue Reading →
Whether it is voice recognition, dictation, or Siri, predictive text is not given to the poetic in us. Rather, artificial intelligence assigns labels, predicts patterns. But humans always break the mold, no matter how predictable we appear to be. We fight for words, stretching sentence structure for all it’s worth. Fragments rearrange and clauses connect until... Continue Reading →
Today’s #LongerView is about “Staying in the Game” when the rules change. I’m writing about writing and how its process is not is not as staid as I once thought but then, neither am I. Maybe that’s the key. As always, I offer the swinging bench. Enjoy. Aim for Even posts offer equanimity a dose... Continue Reading →
In “Every Time He Shakes His Tail,” I remember my last year in graduate school, specifically the month of March, just six weeks before graduation. I almost didn’t graduate, and I would have been fine with that but it was not to be. Mostly what I remember from that time is discovering writing. That alone... Continue Reading →
This Sunday’s #LongerView, “Sail More, Land Less,” is about finding relevance in 1865 among a group of pirates. It’s been easier for me to reside there these days. Of course, it is not mine to stay in the land of fiction, for then I would become something I am not, a pirate. I am just... Continue Reading →
Today’s #LongerView, “It’s Not A Thing Unless…,” is a shipwreck but it’s not the story of the shipwreck. That has already happened. Past tense. This post is about setting sail on what may or may not prove to be a pirate story. As always, I provide the swinging bench. Hope you enjoy the post. ... Continue Reading →
“We can’t expect the world to get better by itself” (Gwen Ifill). Yet, we do. Far too often, I have announced my rhetorical resignation as, "But what I can do?" As if I were Sisyphus, pushing the boulder to the top of the hill only to have it roll down again. It held no appeal... Continue Reading →
Fewer things I like better than metaphors, turning them inside out and upside down to discover what lies in the mix. In all of its intelligence, my Mac dictation finds contradictions nearly impossible, or perhaps it is my writing of them. I give my Artificial Intelligence (AI) pause, and sometimes, a pause turns into a... Continue Reading →
Over 20 years ago, I wrote a novel with the working title, “Center of the Universe,” although the title of the novel changed as many times as its premise. In some ways, that story is still being written but it will never be a novel because it never was. Oh, it reached the requisite number... Continue Reading →
Aim For Even: The Daily Dose 